Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been jammed together in buildings much too close together. Nothing definite was said concerning the contention of Professor Michael Pupin of Columbia University, who stated that the lightning could have been held under control by the use of copper roofings connected by heavy copper strappings directly to the ground; or the belief of Inventor Hudson Maxim that subsurface magazines are essential to the prevention from spreading of explosions...
...reports of the committees investigating the disaster have not yet been published. Can their report explain why the Government did not place the magazines under ground, where danger would have been minimized? Can they discount the contention of Professor Pupin of Columbia University, as given by Hearst-Editor Brisbane, that sheet copper roofings connected by huge copper bands directly with wet earth would have frustrated even this "act of God?" The system of lightning rod protectors at Lake Denmark is obviously inefficient. The Government controls immense voltages of electricity at Niagara Falls; why have not engineers sought a method...
...Alfonso said: "Things in Spain are going satisfactorily, which is proved by my presence here. Let's be optimistic. We have been through plenty of dark days. The dawn is breaking. Spaniards must lay aside their political strife. That is my mission, namely, to find a common meeting ground so as to discover the means of developing our wonderful resources...
...continuously on service, in season and out, finding breaks and mending them. So carefully is each mile of cable charted that little time is lost grappling up the line in two or three miles of ocean. But most breaks occur in shallows. The cable will be scarred or ground in two by icebergs; snagged by fishing trawls; ravaged by boring worms. Once a whale's corpse was found looped in the line. Once a shark's tooth was embedded at a break...
...address to his people, then this may be a vividly naturalistic novel of gypsy life in the eastern U. S. It follows the devious fortunes of a band of Romanies from the break-up of their winter camp in New Hampshire to their arrival at a Vermont council ground in the autumn. In particular, it follows the wooing of pantherlike young Panna, the chief's daughter, by Milanko, the tumbler, and Yurka, the half-giorgio* fiddler; and reflects the changing of gypsy ways from mooching along in bright-painted horse-vans to flitting over the country in shiny automobiles...